Lahat ng Kabanata ng Bankrupting the Alpha: Crowned by the Dragon King: Kabanata 241 - Kabanata 250

Sol POV The King never answered me. Not after my joke. Not after my confession. Not even after I openly admitted how close I could have come to becoming exactly like Elias. He just sat there outside the cage looking exhausted, hollowed out by fear and guilt until he barely resembled the man I once admired. A puppet King. A ruler following orders while pretending he still had choices left. Honestly? That made me angrier than the betrayal itself. Why couldn’t he just fight back? Why couldn’t he choose honor over fear? Why couldn’t he act like the man I remembered? The silence dragged on long enough that eventually I stopped caring whether he noticed what I was doing. Slowly, I twisted my wrists. The loosened shackles slid free immediately. Metal fell softly against the floor of the cage. The King inhaled sharply. I ignored him. At this point, it was not like Elias had not already tried repeatedly to kill me. Honestly, I still did not know what to think about my heal

Sol POVThe footsteps moved closer through the corridor until two figures finally emerged from the darkness.Hunter.Marcus.Relief hit me so hard I nearly laughed again.I could finally see their faces clearly beneath the sunlight now stretching across the stone floor.Hunter looked exhausted and covered in grime while Marcus carried enough weapons to start his own war personally.Honestly?Fair.Before I could even speak, Hunter looked around the prison with narrowed eyes.“I doubt Queen Aella would let him disappear just to avoid the responsibility of becoming a father,” he drawled dryly.Marcus snorted immediately.Hunter crossed his arms.“So…” His gaze shifted toward the cage. “How do we get you out?”Marcus blinked once before looking directly at me.“…Why are you not getting yourself out?”I stared at both of them for one long second.Then laughed.Actually laughed.“You idiots,” I muttered.The tension in the corridor eased instantly.“We thought you were guards, monsters, or

Aella POV Sol was back. I felt it before anyone told me. Before the castle reacted. Before Chaos started laughing somewhere in the distance. The shadows screamed. Not in fear. In shock. There was light in the void. Warmth. Sunlight. Balance. And suddenly— I understood. Sol truly was my opposite. My balance. Where I carried darkness that glittered like stars, Sol carried sunlight capable of piercing the void itself. The realization filled my chest painfully. He was alive. Alive. I wasted no time. The moment the bond strengthened fully again, I opened a portal directly into the void castle. The shadows parted instantly around me as if guiding me home. Or toward him. Voices echoed through the halls as I moved quickly through the corridors. Well— As quickly as someone days away from giving birth to magical triplets could move. Honestly, it felt less like running and more like aggressively waddling with determination. I could hear Leo speaking animatedly from t

Aella POVThe slap echoed through the sanctuary halls like a thunderclap.For one horrifying second, nobody moved.Nobody breathed.Then Hunter stepped forward instantly, placing himself partially between the Queens and Sol’s mother.“Okay,” he said slowly, hands raised carefully. “Maybe we all calm down before the immortal magical royalty starts assaulting people—”Queen Genoviva lifted her hand slightly.And the world stopped.Literally.Everything froze.Marcus halted mid-step.Pamela stopped breathing.Chaos remained stuck with his mouth half open in what was probably going to become an incredibly inappropriate joke.Even the air itself seemed suspended.Only Sol and I remained capable of moving.I felt the sanctuary recognize us instantly.Its monarchs.Its rulers.Its equals.Cold spread through my body.Not fear.Instinct.Because Queen Genoviva did not look angry.She looked betrayed.The younger Queen slowly walked toward Sol’s mother while the rest of the world remained froz

Sol POVSometimes I surprised even myself.Honestly, I should have seen this coming.All this time I had been terrified of being corrupted by power, of losing myself to the frozen flame, the Monarch authority, the void, the responsibility, the crowns forced upon my head one after another.Turns out—It was not the power I should have feared.It was blood.I carried Elias’ blood in my veins.The realization hollowed me out from the inside.The sanctuary around me blurred strangely while everyone continued speaking. I could see their mouths moving, could see Marcus pacing furiously, Hunter looking deeply uncomfortable, Pamela crying softly near Aurora and Leo.But all I heard was white noise.Static.Like my mind had simply stopped translating sound properly.Aella’s hand remained wrapped tightly around mine.I could feel her worry through the Bond, warm and constant and terrified for me, but even that felt distant somehow.Muted beneath the storm ripping through my head.I could not sp